uh, oh, AS writes:
Is it now the McCain campaign's assertion that anyone who isn't for a flat tax is socialist? I should add that if Obama is a socialist, Richard Nixon must have been a commie.-AS
To answer Andrew's question, however, is easy*. To believe in the characterization that it is "punishment", one has to buy into the notion that income is reflective of "just rewards", for lack of better term.
There is little evidence of that on the big scale. I mean, do you really think that Dick Fuld was worth $500 million? C'mon, Andrew.
I have a question for Andrew: Are Biblical teachings "socialist"? How do GOP-captured evangelicals ignore, say, the Jubilee Year?
Put another way, just how much of a godless athiest is Joe-the-Plumber? [Sorry, ignore that, the boomer wars are ... goodbye to all that].
[*btw, the persuasive part of a flat-tax isn't some high-minded notion of ideological fairness. It's that people spend less trying to avoid taxes and just pay them ...]
